Tip: You can even drag icons onto disks or folders whose icons appear in the Sidebar (Chapter 1). When you do so, the main part of the window flashes to reveal the contents of the disk or folder you've dragged onto | Tip You can even drag icons onto disks or folders whose icons appear in the Sidebar Chapter 1 . When you do so the main part of the window flashes to reveal the contents of the disk or folder you ve dragged onto. When you let go of the mouse the main window changes back to reveal the contents of the disk or folder where you started short Sidebar combined with spring-loaded folders make a terrific drag-and-drop way to file a desktop icon from anywhere to anywhere-without having to open or close any windows at all. When you finally release the mouse you re left facing the final window. All the previous windows closed on the way. You ve neatly placed the icon into the core of the nested folders. . Making Spring-Loaded Folders Work That spring-loaded folder technique sounds good in theory but can be disconcerting in practice. For most people the long wait before the first folder opens is almost enough wasted time to negate the value of the feature altogether. Furthermore when the first window finally does open you re often caught by surprise. Suddenly your cursor mouse button still down is inside a window sometimes directly on top of another folder you never intended to open. But before you can react its window too has opened and you find yourself out of control. POWER USERS CLINIC Designing Your Own Icons You don t have to be content with the icons provided by Microsoft Apple or whoever else wrote your software. You can paste new icons onto your file disk and folder icons to help you pick them out at a glance. The easiest way to replace an icon is to copy it from another icon. To do so highlight the icon hold down the Option key and choose File Show Inspector see Section . In the resulting window click the existing icon and then choose Edit Copy. Next click the icon to which you want to transfer the copied picture. Its icon now appears in the Info dialog box that s still open on the screen. Click the icon in the dialog box and this time choose .
